addictive

Strategy

& Studio

About Addictive

Mobile

We started the business 5 years ago as we could see huge potential for mobile. Our model has evolved as the space has grown and developed. Much of our work is around strategy where we help brands understand how mobile, social and tech is impacting their business. Our work defines the landscape and identifies the opportunities for competitive advantage.

And we can also bring these strategies to life; developing experiences, services and products across mobile, social and content. We do this using the architect / builder model we have pioneered over the last decade, where the addictive team do the thinking and planning and then work closely with the best suited builder to make it happen. That Builder may be part of our extensive friends and family,or it could be from the clients own network. This approach - when done transparently - is really effective and efficient.

Everything is Mobile

The relentless rise of mobile means that just about any marketing or business problem needs to be considered with a Mobile lens. Our approach usually involves social and content and we always think cross device, so increasingly we are looking at the desktop experience too. With emerging tech like beacons we are also looking at how digital and the real world can be blended.

We live in exciting times.

Strategy

We do a wide range of work helping brands understand what's happening in mobile, social and tech. We identify threats and opportunities and help develop effective strategies for responding to these changes.

Mobile & Social Strategy

We have worked with a wide range of brands looking at specific verticals and the trends affecting them. With market mapping and other frameworks we look at best practice and how the brand can gain competitive advantage

Are you happy with your strategy?

Audit

With our Fit4Mobile framework we look at all aspects of a brands communications. Having identified problem areas we make recommendations on quick fixes and longer term solutions.

Many brands are wasting money and missing opportunities by not being mobile Fit. How are you doing?

Provocative Thinking

Our thinking is valued by lots of people and we are asked to speak at events and workshops for Google, Facebook and Yahoo as well as many industry events.

Our futurology video from 2002 now looks a little cheesy (it was created for a client conference) but we anticipated much of todays digital landscape.

Could you use some Provocative Thinking?

Training

Since we wrote the ISBA Guide to Mobile back in 2010 ( let us know if you would like a copy) we have helped lots of brands with training around mobile. With consistently good feedback. Can we help you get your team up to speed?

Mobile Fix

Since starting addictive we have been sharing our thinking through our weekly email newsletter.

We get great feedback on our Mobile Fix newsletter with lots of subscribers at Google (>400), Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Apple, Amazon etc as well as many VCs, brands and agencies. Sign up here

Digital Transformation

Businesses are increasingly realising they need to rethink their skills and processes as more and more of their revenue comes from digital. We do workshops to help teams adjust to this Digital Transformation and acquire the new skills and ways of working needed.

Studio

As much as we like thinking, we also like doing and Studio is where we make things happen. We do client projects and we do our own IP projects. With almost 20 years experience creating digital experiences for brands like Amazon, PlayStation, IBM, Halifax, eBay & many others, we have the expertise, and know all the right people, to make anything happen. Look at our projects to get a sense of our capabilities.

Projects

Some recent projects and a couple of older ones. Get in touch to find out more.

OK

We worked with Northern & Shell to reinvent OK Magazine for mobile. We acted as Architect and developed the strategy as well as leading the UX thinking on the mobile site, with lots of pictures and scrolling. With huge mobile traffic - much of it from Twitter- OK now has a much more coherent role for its users and early indications show its been very succesful

Plan

A wonderful charity, Plan was seeing mobile traffic rising but donations on mobile were a problem. We developed a new UX approach to donating and built a responsive site that works on the existing CMS and preserves all the urls, so there we no problems with SEO

easyCarClub

Hired by 2 of the UKs top entrepreneurs Stelios and Brent Hoberman, we worked with our friends at Ocasta to develop an iOS app that brings this innovative sharing economy business to life

EnjoyEngland

We developed the first Android app for this brand, drawing on their extensive database of attractions and enabling users to search for places around them or to plan ahead

RCKSCK

Our own IP project RCKSCK is a tool for Urban Explorers, designed to help users share and discover great experiences. These might be coffee shops, hotels or retailers. Whilst we work on the app, we are pretotyping the concept with a London focused email and on Tumblr. You can sign up for the Friday Edit emails here

SkratchMyBack

Skratch is another of our own projects - a social platform that helps people help people. By connecting volunteers with charites we have validated the idea in our Manchester beta and we are now talking with partners to roll out the concept to other areas

Halifax Bank

This is an old project for Halifax - in 2005 we developed a desktop app that showed the latest prices and promoted the Sharedealing service. An early example of Branded Utility

(We did all the digital marketing for Halifax from 2001 until 2005 - lots of awards but crucially very effective at driving business metrics too.)

MapMyAdvenure

Developed for STA Travel back in 2007 this was an early attempt at blending content and social. Users could share their travel experiences on a map, building to a really useful guide for travellers.

Mobile Advertising

We're increasingly involved in mobile advertising, as brands realise the best way to make their budget work harder is investing in good creative work. For this football betting we focused on Champions League games shown on ITV and targeted pubs with wifi. The creative tried to demonstrate the brand gets football, as well as offer free bets

Mobile Fix

We produce Mobile Fix every week to share news and views on mobile and related topics. We have over 3600 subscribers across tech firms like Google, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo etc as well as many Brands and Agencies.

Sign up for Fix

Our weekly newsletter on all things mobile, social & tech gets great feedback and we have over 3600 subscribers from Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo and eBay as well as lots of Brands and Agencies..